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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Aldeen Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Dates:
1954-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Archie L. Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract
Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Arlene Morris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0276
Abstract
Clinical psychologist and University of Iowa alumna who was a member of the Des Moines Know Your Neighbor panel.
Dates:
1946-1996; 1961-1966
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Azalia Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0650
Abstract
Mitchell and her husband operated the Community Pharmacy in Des Moines for 25 years.
Dates:
1911-1988
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara M. Calderon papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0247
Abstract
Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1945-1968
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Barbara Wommack papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0698
Abstract
Clubwoman and member of the Semper Fidelis Club in Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1990-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bessie Wilkerson papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0320
Abstract
Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0111
Abstract
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Dates:
1921-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Betty Mae Page correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0281
Abstract
Waterloo, Iowa resident who served on Governor Ray's Commission on the Status of Women.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1969-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Billie D. Lloyd papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0705
Abstract
Social worker, community activist, and civic administrator who founded the Quad Cities Conference on Black Families, Inc.
Dates:
1957-1995; 1976-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Booster Women's Club (Fort Madison, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0322
Abstract
Social and philanthropic club organized in 1947 by African American women in Fort Madison, Iowa
Dates:
1947-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991; 1942-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Cecile Cooper papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0006
Cherry Muhanji papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0366
Abstract
Writer, lesbian activist, and University of Iowa alumna.
Dates:
1984-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dora E. Mackay papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0248
Abstract
African American singer and beauty shop owner in Des Moines, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Dates:
1932-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
E. Marie Hawkins papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0333
Abstract
Iowa City elementary school teacher.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one videocassette [V133] shelved in videocassette collection.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one videocassette [V133] shelved in videocassette collection.
Dates:
1991-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edith Reed Atkinson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0251
Abstract
Singer and radio-script editor from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Atkinson performed in a song-and-dance act with her brothers Wallace and Cecil Reed from 1935 to 1944.
Dates:
1935-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edna Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0443
Abstract
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Dates:
1948-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth "Bettye" Crawford Tate papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0266
Abstract
Owner and operator of the Tate Arms, a boarding house for African American male students at the University of Iowa during the 1940s and 1950s.
Dates:
1932-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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- Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 2
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
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- Wood, Mary Elizabeth, 1902- 2
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- Afro-American Cultural Center (University of Iowa) 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- American Basketball League 1
- American Nurses Association 1
- Anderson, Helen 1
- Anderson, Ruth Bluford, 1921-2013 1
- Antioch Baptist Church (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
- Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
- Atkinson, Edith Reed, 1919-2000 1
- Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Baxter, Elaine, 1933- 1
- Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
- Beran family 1
- Beran, Janice A. 1
- Berry, Dora Martin, 1937- 1
- Berry, Jean, 1938- 1
- Berry, Venise T. 1
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 1
- Bloom, Amy 1
- Bolden, Louise, 1922- 1
- Booster Women's Club (Fort Madison, Iowa) 1
- Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
- Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
- Branstad, Terry E. 1
- Brewton, Frances 1
- Bridgeport Central High School (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1
- Brown, Geraldine 1
- Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
- Burleson, Jane, 1928- 1
- Calderon, Barbara McDonald, 1915- 1
- Carl, Janet, 1948- 1
- Carson, Frances 1
- Chapman, Kathleen Halloran, 1937- 1
- Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
- Club Les Dames (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
- Coffin, Winnie 1
- Cohen, Gertrude, 1913- 1
- Community Pharmacy (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Conklin, Charlene, 1929- 1
- Cooper, Cecile, 1900-1997 1
- Cooper, Fannie Wilson 1
- Corning, Joy, 1932- 1
- Cothorn, Marguerite, 1909-1998 1
- Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
- Davis, Aldeen 1
- Davis, June, 1940- 1
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Phi Chapter (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Des Moines Area Community College 1
- Des Moines City Federation of Colored Women 1
- Des Moines Suffrage Club 1
- Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
- Dickens, Mary, 1925-2014 1
- Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
- Domond, Nadine, 1975- 1
- Drake College of Pharmacy 1
- Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
- Dungy, Madgetta, 1942- 1
- Eichacker, Lois H., 1932- 1
- Estes, Simon 1
- Fowler, Gwendolyn Wilson, 1907-1997 1
- Franklin Book Programs, inc. 1
- Furgerson, Penny, 1936- 1
- Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
- Gateway Dance Theatre 1
- Gentleman, Julia, 1931- 1
- Governor Ray's Commission on the Status Of Women (Iowa) 1
- Greene, Archie L., 1945- 1
- Greene, Archie Lou Shipp 1
- Gregerson, Mary Pat, 1938- 1
- Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 1
- Griffin, Phyllis 1
- Gruhn, Josephine, 1927- 1
- Hammond, Johnie, 1932- 1
- Hannon, Beverly A., 1932- 1
- Haralovich, Mary Beth 1
- Harper family 1
- Harper, Mattie 1
- Harper, Patricia, 1932- 1
- Harper, Virginia, 1929-1997 1
- Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
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